IMAGE MANAGING DEVICE, IMAGE RETRIEVING DEVICE, IMAGE MANAGING METHOD, IMAGE RETRIEVING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING PROGRAM FOR ALLOWING COMPUTER TO EXECUTE THESE METHODS

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To more surely and efficiently retrieve a required image. SOLUTION: Image data and natural language data indicating the visual impression of an image formed based on the image data are relationally stored in an image data base 5. In the case of executing retrieval by a retrieving part 6, natural language data indicating a retrieving sentence are inputted from a natural langage input part 2 and collated with the natural language data stored in the data base 5, so that image data related to the natural language data having a common visual impression are extracted from the data base 5.